Mercury-lead ointment and process of making same



Patented May 20, 1924.

UNITED STATES EARRY OUSTAYAN, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

MERCURY-LEAD OINTMENT AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY OUSTAYAN, a citizen of United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Mercury-Lead Ointments andProcesses of Making Same, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an ointment containing mercury and lead, and containing also a mercuric compound such as mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

The ointment has a fatty base which may be composed of 100 parts of an animal fat, such as lard, 15 parts of a liquid fatty oil, such as olive oil, and 25 parts of a wax, such as paraflin wax or beeswax. It will be understood that other fatty or greasymaterials can be used, to form the base,.but the proportions of the same should be so adjusted as to produce a mixture which has the same or approximately the same consistency both when cold or at body temperature as the mixture above stated. In a separate receptacle 20 parts of metallic lead are mixed with 15 parts of metallic mercury, and the mixture heated sufliciently to fuse the mass. The mass is then slowly cooled while being ground in a mortar, until it has been concerted into an impalpable powder. To this mixture of lead and mercury'in powdered form is then added 5 parts of mercuric chlo ride or other mercuric salt, and the mixture ground in a mortar in order to produce a.

thorough mixture of the powdered alloy with the mercuric salt. The quantity above stated of the powdered material is then added to the above quantity of the fatty base, preferably while the base is in a molten condition, and the entire mass is thoroughly triturated. while being cooled to room temperature. There is thereby produced a smooth ointment which is physically and chemically stable and it can be put up in collapsible tubes or ordinary ointment jars and dis pensed in the usual manner. I

like.

Application filed January 22, 1923. Serial No. 614,307.

The ointment above described is highly suitable for external application to swellings, boils, carbuncles, pimples, ulcers and the like. It has great drawing power and will draw out the cores of boils, will remove inflammation and pain and will remove pus from pimples, ulcers, boils and the In the case of boils it is advisable to prick the surface with a needle, in order to assist in drawing out the core. and pus of the boil.

The ointment can be applied night and morning to swellings and the like, or can be applied more frequently if desired,say several times a day. p

I am aware that ointments containing metallic mercury in a fatty base are old and well known. I am also aware that ointments containing-metallic mercury and mercuric salts have been proposed heretofore. I

am also aware that ointments containing lead salts have heretofore been employed, but so far as I am aware no one has, up to the present time, produced an ointment containing metallic mercury, metallic lead and I and containing a pulverized solid alloy of mercury and lead and containing a mercuric salt. I

2. An ointment containing as a vehicle, a mixture of substantially solid animal fat, a liquid fatty oil and a wax and intimately incorporated with metallic mercury, and metallic lead and a mercuric salt.

3. A process of making an ointment which comprises melting together mercury and lead, cooling and pulverizing the melt, in-

corporating the same with a powdered mercuric salt, and incorporating the mixture with a fatty base.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. HARRY OUSTAYAN. 

